David Slepian

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David Slepian (born June 30, 1923) is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1949, for a dissertation in physics. Later he worked at the Mathematics Research Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he pioneered work in algebraic coding theory. He also proved the possibility of singular detection, a perhaps unintuitive result. He is also known for discovering a fundamental result in distributed source coding called Slepian-Wolf coding with Jack Wolf. He was awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1974, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1981.